Noormarkku
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NOORMARKKU
Region : Satakunta
Former province : Western Finland (until 1997 Turku and Pori)
Incorporated into : 2010 Pori
Official blazon
Kultakentässä mustalla alasimella istuva punainen orava.
Origin/meaning
The arms were officially granted on November 2, 1956.
The arms show a aquirrel on an anvil. The arms symbolise the iron works near the waterfall in the Oravanjoki river (oravan=squirrel).
Literature : Pirinen, K. Local coats of arms in Finland (Suomen kunnallisvaakunat), Vantaa, 1982, 216 p.